Exercise Evaluation Randomised Trial (EXERT): a randomised trial comparing GP referral for leisure centre-based exercise, community-based walking and advice only.

Objectives: To evaluate and compare the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a leisure centre-based exercise programme, an instructor-led walking programme and advice-only in patients referred for exercise by their GPs.

Design: A single-centre, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial, consisting of three arms, with the primary comparison at 6 months.

Setting: Assessments were carried out at Copthall Leisure Centre in Barnet, an outer London borough, and exercise programmes conducted there and at three other leisure centres and a variety of locations suitable for supervised walking throughout the borough.

Post-categorical processing and attenuation of the auditory suffix: evidence from both immediate and delayed suffixes.

Recall of the final item in a spoken list is impaired by the presentation of a spoken to-be-ignored item following the list. The nature of the processes responsible for the stimulus suffix effect (as well as its magnitude) can be varied by manipulating the intrinsic characteristics of the relationship between the final list (target) item and suffix. A series of experiments show that systematic manipulation of both typicality of same-category membership of target-item and suffix (Experiment 1), and degree of synonymity between target-item and suffix (Experiment 2) result in differential attenuation in the magnitude of the suffix effect.

Do infants of depressed mothers cry more than other infants?

Objective: This study compared the crying behaviour of infants of depressed and non-depressed mothers at 3 and 6 months of age.

Methodology: Twenty-nine depressed and 44 non-depressed mothers, their infants and partners participated in this study. Mothers were asked to complete 24-hour diaries of the amount their infants cried for 1 week.